Earlier this week, the UK's top celebrities gathered for the Queen's Jubilee Arts Party. BroadwayWorld brings you "red carpet" coverage below, featuring Michael Crawford, Dame Judi Dench, Clive Anderson, Timothy Spall, Arlene Phillips, Nettie and Nick Mason, Dionne Bromfield, Joan Collins, Petula Clarke, Shirley Bassey, Lily Cole, Mariella Frostrup, Patricia Hodge, Joanna Lumley, Fay Ripley and more!
According to BBC News, 850 were invited to the Diamond Jubilee reception. Also in attendance but not pictured below were actors Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson, playwrights Tom Stoppard, Trevor Nunn and Nicholas Hynter, and many more entertainment luminaries.
The Jubilee celebrates 60 years of the monarch's reign over the United Kingdom and Commonwealth. Gary Barlow and Andrew Lloyd Webber's song for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee-"Sing" will be performed live at the Diamond Jubilee Concert outside Buckingham Palace June 4. And on Tuesday, June 5, the festivities begin with the Royal Carriage Procession.